In the Summer of 2009, this 10 year old's parents were arrested in a work-site raid under suspicion of using false documents by the Maricopa County Police. In a desperate attempt to get her parents back, Katherine pleaded to Barack Obama to release her mother and father in a video that soon went viral. As tears streamed down her face she cried “Mr. President, I need you to help me, my family and my parents. I want them back with me again.”

This teenager stands with the Sarayaku Indigenous community in Equador and aims to expose oil companies pillaging and plundering indigenous land for capital gains, in spite of the environmental consequences that arise from it. She not only carries an empowering message among the youth in her local community but also is actively striving to reach policy-makers. In the COP 25 Climate Summit she exposed the real issues within her community saying that “Governments continue to concession our territories without our consent to the extractive industries that are creating climate change . This should be criminal.”

She Co-Founded Zero Hour in 2016 — an organisation of youth activists stressing the lack of action being taken by policy makers on Climate Change. In September 2019, as part of Zero Hour, this young activist sued Governor Jay Inslee and the State of Washington over greenhouse-gas emissions in the state and testified against them. Her efforts ignited the initial spark needed for action against climate change to be taken not just in the US, but all over the world. Today, she and her fellow activists continue raising awareness and fueling the conversation and action against climate change.

She is an American Environmental Activist who has acted as the brains behind hundreds of student-led strikes across the United States for Climate Action. She co-founded the U.S. Youth Climate Strike (an extension global youth climate change movement) in January 2019. However, this young activist's contributions to the youth society extends further — she is not only a symbol for climate activism, but as well a role model young, black girls like herself. She was placed on BET's "Future 40" list, which is a list of “40 of the most inspiring and innovative vanguards who are redefining what it means to be unapologetically young, gifted & black”.

At the age of 8, after being bullied by his peers for having Tourette’s Syndrome, this young man decided to take a bold stand. He founded Jaylens Challenge Foundation, Inc — an organisation aiming to raise awareness on his disorder and educate the public on the prevalence of bullying. “With his Motto “Bullying No Way!” and his iconic glow-in-the-dark wristand anchoring his movement, he set out to change the world one person at a time by spreading acceptance of who we are by awareness and education. “The more we understand each other, the more we will love the differences we have and the similarities we share.””

Named The TIME’s Person of the Year 2019, this young activist and her success in calling for global action has made international headlines. From sailing across the Atlantic to speak at the UN Climate Action Summit against climate change to launching a global coordinated climate action movement through Fridays For Future — this young lady has put the need for change on the map.

Only 11 years old, she became the voice, the messenger and the hope of the people of Aleppo. With the power of social media at her side, Bana documented the siege in Syria on her twitter and raised awareness on the conditions her family were made to go through. From constant airstrikes, hunger and the prospect of inching death, Bana highlighted the true need for peace.

Since then Bana has beens honoured with the Rising Star Award at The Asian Awards and has published a memoir titled “Dear World”.

This young activist is an American teenage drag performer, model, LGBTQ activist, speaker among other things. He came to the world’s attention after a video of him dancing in Drag through the entire NYC Pride March went viral in 2015. Since then, he has used his growing fame for a good cause: speaking out about LGBTIQ+ rights. His goal is “to encourage people of all ages and identities to be self-confident, courageous, and kind.” Perhaps this is why, for many young people he is not only a role model but as well a symbol of freedom, self-expression and acceptance.

The Indonesian sisters are climate activists known for their success in reducing plastic use in Bali. In 2013, 12 and 10 years old, they instigated a campaign entitled “Bye Bye to Plastic” to rid Bali of single-use plastic bags. However, their dedication extends further — in order to gain public attention they staged a dawn to dusk hunger strike in 2016 demanding a meeting with the Bali's then-governor, I Made Mangku Pastika. The campaign successfully ended in Pastika signing an order to ban styrofoam, plastic bags and straw from the island from 2018. This was not the end but rather the start of their crusade against plastic pollution and climate change. In 2017 the pair spoke at the United Nations World Ocean Day in New York City.

This Bangladeshi-American Muslim teenager living in the US noticed the constraints and manifestations of bigotry, racism and other issues in the society around him and started Redefy. Redefy is a nonprofit, writing platform found to “boldly defy stereotypes, embrace acceptance and tolerance, redefine our perspectives positively, and create an active community”. Redefy soon became home to hundreds of students all over the world who too felt moved to make a change. Through this platform, he was not only able to share his message and fight for inclusion but as well shape a generation of youths pushing the envelope just like him. Till date, he has given four TedTalks on the issues around him and has been commended by Barack Obama for his efforts through Redefy.

He was a 19-year old with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) - a fatal disease regarded as the number one genetic killer of children worldwide. Despite the fact that his muscles have almost fully deteriorated, in 2005, he and his friends rented a wheelchair accessible RV and travelled across the US to raise awareness and money for his condition. Although, this young activist may be gone, his legacy will always live on, not only in the hearts of those that he touched in his life, but as well in the film “Darius Goes West: The Roll of His Life” — a documentary on his journey. The film has won 25 awards worldwide, 20 of which are Audience Choice Awards, and raised more than $1 million for DMD research.

She started campaigning against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) at 14 years old. After 3 years of campaiging against FGM in Britain, Integrate UK - a charity she was working with, succesfully launched a petition to end the practise in the UK. Her petition gained over 250,000 signatures and received support from both activist Malala Yousafzai and the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. Her tireless campaigning has contributed to a requirement for health and social care professionals, social workers, and teachers in England and Wales to report known cases of FGM in girls under the age of 18 to the police.

She was one of the survivors of the Parkland School Shootings in Florida. Ever since the tragic accident, she has been actively calling on congress for gun reform and has co-founded the gun-control advocacy group “Never Again”.

One of her biggest contributions was her speech "We Call B.S." at the Rally to Support Firearm Safety Legislation which incited youth action and called for change.

Ever since she was 8 years old, she has been looking to end the world’s plastic problem. Through the power of petitioning, this young activist has been meeting with mall executives to demand reductions in single-use plastic waste. She was the reason why Central Group decided to ban plastic bags in its department stores. However, her efforts don’t stop there, her success with executives has only fuelled her resolution to tackle Thailand’s Plastic Problem head on. In the last year alone, she has been meeting with government and corporate officials to force them to solve the climate crises they are creating.

She is arguably the most well known name and face in the youth activism world. With her valiant efforts in protecting girls’ rights to education felt around the world. Her story is both gutting and inspiring: having stood up for the right to education and equality in her village in Pakistan, she was shot. But this marked the beginning of her journey. Soon after her recovery from the shooting, she rose as an activism for education and co-founded the Malala Fund, a non-profit organisation investing in girls and education. She became the recipient of Pakistan's first National Youth Peace Prize and the 2013 Sakharov Prize, and finally the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize award, being the youngest person to ever receive it.

She is an Afghan rapper and vocal activist standing up against forced marriages. She first gained attention when she released "Brides for Sale," a music video in which she raps about daughters being sold into marriage by their families. Soon, with the help of an Iranian documentary filmmaker who over three years documented her story in the film Sonita, she filmed the video to escape a marriage her parents were planning for her, even though it is illegal for women to sing publicly in Iran, where she was living at the time. In 2015, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.

Born in 2007, she is known as Little Miss Flint for her integral role in raising awareness about Flint's ongoing water crisis. In 2017, she wrote a letter to President Barack Obama to draw attention to the Flint Water Crisis in her hometown. Her letter prompted a nationwide awareness of the city's critical situation and eventually, the authorisation of $100 million to fix the crisis. She has also been working to fundraise to support underprivileded children in her community and the nation.

At 11 years old, she grasped the lack of diversity in children’s books. She complained to her mother that all of her mandatory readings were “books about white boys and dogs”. Thus, she took it upon herself to start a book drive called #1000BlackGirlBooks, to bring more attention to literature featuring black female protagonists, with the goal of collecting 1,000 books to donate for black girls in other schools. The book drive focussed on books in which black girls were the main characters, not minor or background characters. Within a few months, more than 9,000 books were collected.

In 2016, she wrote a book called “Marley Dias Gets It Done: And So Can You!”

She is an American education advocate and film maker best known for her works on the advocacy for the education of girls in Africa. In November 2014, at age 12, she became the world's youngest filmmaker to have a self-produced and self-edited work screened. Her film was not only showed in two movie chains but also went on to show all over the world - in Ghana, England, South Africa, and Japan.

Following the success of her films, she has met with 31 presidents and prime ministers to advocate for education.

He was a Sophmore at Gloucester High School with a simple desire be just “a normal child and use the restroom in peace” becaming skewed with controversy. Being a transgender student, his school board denied him the right to use the Male Toilet as his peers, and to instead use the female or a separate toilet isolated from his friends. This sparked national outrage and a lawsuit against the Virginia School Board in denying Grimm his constituitional rights. After 5 years of relentless battle, the court ruled a resounding yes on his motion to protect transgender and LGBTQ+ rights in the classroom and beyond.